Canvases and Careers Today - Criticism and Its Markets: édition anglaise - Couverture souple

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1933128607 ISBN 13 : 9781933128603

Editeur : Lukas & Sternberg, 2009

Synopsis

Un examen critique des notions de mémoire et de monument à partir du mémorial conçu par les architectes Nikolaus Hirsch, Wolfgang Lorch et Andrea Wandel à la gare de Berlin-Grunewald.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Texts by Alfred Gottwaldt, Nikolaus Hirsch, Susanne Kill, Wolfgang Lorch, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Diana Schulle, Andrea Wandel, Harald Welzer --------- 'Crimes against humanity,' especially genocide, have been excluded from amnesty since the Nuremburg Trials. On a cultural level, oblivion by decree becomes an obligation to remember. This reversal is well-intended, but it opens up critical questions: Can memory be permanently established? Is it possible to maintain it in a monument? ----------- The intervention at Track 17 at Berlin-Grunewald station, a work by architects Nikolaus Hirsch, Wolfgang Lorch, and Andrea Wandel on the site of the deportations from Berlin between 1941 and 1945, is an attempt that aims at a structural connection between memory and oblivion. Referring to Alois Riegl's (the founder of the 'Modern Cult of Monuments') differentiation between the specific, highly controlled documentary value, and the generic, always changing 'age value,' the authors introduce a strategy that negotiates between stable and instable parameters: presumably permanent data, shifting vegetal successions, material durations and decay. This approach investigates whether it is possible to build ambivalence or even doubt into a monument. Thus, the uncertain status of the material memory becomes the focus of the intervention at Track 17. ---------- The editors' work includes the Dresden Synagogue, the Hinzert Document Center, a high-rise building in the geopolitical hotspot of Tbilisi (Georgia), and the highly debated Archeological Zone / Jewish Museum in Cologne. --------------------- Photos by Gerald Domenig and Lukas Roth; Design by Surface, Frankfurt am Main/Berlin

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lukas & Sternberg
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1933128607
• ISBN 13: 9781933128603
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible